ARGENTINE EDITIONS

This here, the fifth recorded effort by the project led by Zelmar Garín, varies from its album precursors: the musical style changes with each track, with dissimilar cuts that can go through passages of Eclectic Rock, Psychedelia (Billy Bond), Free Rock, Improvisational, R.I.O., (Henry Cow), and many other genres.

This outfit approached this their fourth album with different ideas with respect to their previous records. While still holding on to their Psychedelic sonic foundation roots, they have now incorporated Surf, as well as touches and flavours of current Post Rock landscapes.

Under the direction and composition leadership of Cristian Luzza, this ensemble of almost 20 musicians performs a basically Instrumental and Contemporary type of Music, with the added bonus of standard Rock instruments. Their Neo Classical end product is along the melodic lines of outfits such as Gatto Marte.

Contemporary Jazz Trio, consisting of keyboards, electric guitar and drums, a lineup which reconciles with certain harmonic and expressive forms within Jazz Bop, linked to John Abercrombie, and a style of lyricism most commonly identified with Bill Evans.

Second solo outing by this great artist, who was wise enough to evolve in the structuring of his compositions, in order to not only blend Rock & Jazz, but also to weave Tango & Folk into his unique musical concoction. By doing so, he has managed to come up with a very Argentine-flavoured repertoire.

Prestigious Jazz Fusion trio, who imposed their own style towards the latter part of the eighties. They experimented with an unusual mixture of rhythms from the River Plate area. Numerous musicians guest on this, their second recorded output.

After fourteen years since their very first split, Alma y Vida got back together again, reconvening for the purpose of recording this album live in concert, which took place in November 1989 at the Astral Theatre in Buenos Aires. A trip down memory lane was taken by the classic Argentine band on such occasion, as they plugged away through a set featuring absolutely all of their most popular hits and well-remembered long-play tracks.

This was the third and last LP of the legendary Argentine group. It was recorded in the United States, during November, 1980. In this brief return, after many years without playing together, they recorded an album more in accordance to the moment, within a Jazz Rock Fusion style of the time.

This represented the mythological band's very first official live album, and was recorded in December 1979, at the Obras Sanitarias Indoor Stadium, in the City of Buenos Aires. The occasion marked Almendra's return after nine years of separation. Besides all the group's usual classics, the disc includes the first-time introduction of two previously unreleased jewels: "Cambiándome el futuro" y "Vamos a ajustar las cuentas al cielo."

The former Guitarist with Panza and Octafonic, presents his third album, which is a Concept piece: It represents a Surrealistic journey within his own personal universe of highly distorted sounds, and within an Experimental Fusion direction that explores variables between Progressive Rock and Jazz, and which is so obviously much closer to another of his former bands, La Mujer Barbuda, from a stylistic point of view.

This is the group's latest offering, assembled with different works from the last couple of years. The album boasts brand new and unreleased songs, combined with newly recorded and re-arranged versions of the band's classic tracks.

As a result of their deep political convictions and commitment, when the military dictatorship erupted in Argentina (March, 1976), the group decided to exile themselves in France, where they released two records: El Sacrificio (1978) and Fuerza (1982.) This newly-released double album features both works, through which they continued expanding the Latin American Folk horizons they were renowned for, by fusing elements of Progressive Rock, Jazz and Tango.

This renowned Argentine Early Progressive Rock quartet came together from the ashes of the legendary Almendra. They began their recording career with a heavier and harder sound, very much in the same vein of the likewise mythical Pescado Rabioso.

Former members of renowned Celtic Music group "Kells", settled in the Argentine Patagonia region, within close proximity to the Puelo Lake and with a brand new line-up began to present their own versions of Irish and Scottish music. This second CD of theirs includes Traditional songs, as well as own compositions.

Ararat's second album manages to keep the heavy density of their guitars, so typical of the Stoner Rock sound of Los Natas, while also becoming totally immersed into an atmosphere of Psychedelic Ambience, complete with imaginary smoke and all, electric guitar passages, and a piano that permanently keeps the appropriate climaxes going.

This is the third album by the outfit led by Sergio Chotsourian (formerly of Natas), which now introduces us to a new lineup, and with a more potent and raucous sound, featuring plenty of Argentine-styled rhythms, Stoner Rock and Electronic Trance.

Typically-sounding Argentine Hard Blues quartet, the sound of whom harks back to the mythical and glorious days of Pappo's Blues and La Pesada. The main components are Juanjo Harervack (the voice behind Riki Riki Tave and Gualicho Turbio) and the very particular bass player (the prestigious violin player with Futbol) Federico Terranova.

This legendary Drummer from the Argentine Jazz scene, is deservedly honoured with this brilliant CD, which not only reflects his huge musical legacy, but also presents terrifically efficient Guest Musicians' accompanying performances, such as Litto Nebbia, Baby Lopez Furst, Enrique "Mono" Villegas, and Gato Barbieri. Astarita also formed part of groups such as Buenos Aires Jazz Fusion, among several others.

This is the third and last Ataraxia's demotape recorded and self-produced in 1992 and released in 1993 by Energeia. The band has chosen not to change the original sound keeping the early 90ies rough and instinctive spirit. They have included to this re-issue a bonus track, "L'ultimo Arazzo", that had to be part of the original 1993 release but, being not satisfied with the original version, they re-recorded it right now with the participation of Riccardo Spaggiari on drums.

After being deleted out of catalogue on two separate occasions, one of the early works by this essential Italian Dark Folk Medieval band is finally re-released to a starving market. Hauntingly obscure and gorgeous melodies abound, and are all sung by a Classically-trained female vocalist.

The first part of the album, dedicated to Springtime and the awakening of nature, features passionate songs evoking mysterious airy escapades. The second part, inspired by Autumn, opens with a sacred hymn to reach a very hazardous level of experimentation.

After a long waiting, finally “Concerto N. 6, a Baroque plaisanterie” CD was re-pressed in a beautiful digi-pack edition with digitally mastered sound and an exclusive bonus track recorded in 2009. It contains 9 songs taken from the original album + “Orlando, a female” an Ataraxia’s version of Franz Schubert’s Ave Maria.

This album was released as a limited edition in 1998 and it was shortly sold-out. This opus is inspired by the well-known character of Virginia Woolf’s novel. The dualism of the character is well exemplified when strong Neoclassical influences coexist with with arias built on complex guitar arpeggios with a very impressive emotional impact.

A welcome to the Cabaret From Hell, so to speak, and a highly unusual attraction which brings artists both dead and alive together for a really grotesque and macabre show, and through astonishment and admiration transports us back to the lovely Paris of the Belle Epoque, more precisely to the Montmartre Cabaret of Terror. Without a shadow of a doubt, this is the band's darkest, perturbing, strange, and terrifying album...

This compilation include a few of the tracks already compiled on the original “Oil on Canvas”, + a completely exclusive new song, + several new songs never compiled before especially belonging to the last productions of the band.

This record presents us with song-formatted type of compositions, featuring Progressive arrangements, and a very healthy dose of Argentine seventies Rock influences, albeit within a modern-sounding framework, potentiated by stick and wind instruments. The group's components have all enjoyed vast trajectories and originate from different musical branches, each one contributing his own colours, flavours and influences.

Ave Rock was one of the very first so-called Progressive Rock bands to emerge in Argentina during the early seventies. Their sound was full of rhythm changes, and boasted compositions abundant in vast melodic richness. The virtuosity displayed by the group's members was also of extremely high caliber.

Three years after they released their first album in 1974, Ave Rock returned in 1977 with a new line-up and launched "Espacios", the group's second L.P. Consisting of barely three tracks (two of them being of extra long duration), this record is much more Symphonic than its predecessor, and features many references towards the music of outfits such as Yes and Flash.

The New Earth is the third album from Aythis (France). Without losing the wintery atmospheres, this work melt many influences and results in a blend of Synphonic, Neoclassical, Neofolk rythmed by bombastic drums.

This is the tribute that Pedro Aznar offered to the compositions of the late, great Luis Alberto Spinetta. This double album was recorded live-in-concert in Buenos Aires, Argentina on April 29, 2012. Pedro sang, played guitar and bass, and was accomppanied by Pomo on drums and Andrés Beeuwsaert on keyboards and vocals.

Formed at the dawn of the seventies and possessors of a Hard Rock style in the Pescado Rabioso / Led Zeppelin tradition and vein, Barro Mental were never able to release an album back then. Now at long last the wait is over: after more than 40 years going by, the group has finally recorded its' music and made it publicly available! The Barro Mental lads were accompanied during these sessions by some of the musicians in Nexus.

Second studio offering by the project led by Beto Vazquez, whom together with his band and guest musicians, develops his own sound by combining Power Metal, Symphonic Rock, Melodic Rock and Gothic Rock. There is a certain similarity to the works by Ayreon.

Beto's third album features an abundance of important guest stars, and a deeper sense of melody throughout its songs. Beautiful female voices can be heard in most tracks. One heck of a great production, which comes in a luxury digi-pack.

Beto's fourth studio production is an absolutely awesome gem of studio production wizardry and musical excellence in every possible way imaginable!! Added to this magnificence is the amazing quality performances of all the guest musicians (opera singers and virtuous instrumentalists alike) who appear on this extraordinary album. The CD's presentation is proportionally grandiose, and comes in a luxurious double digi-pack case. Strictly very limited edition.

Maintaining a certain continuity in their goal to establish different variants of Progressive Metal, this fifth album features numerous operatic voices, as well as many guest musicians, which he's accustomed us to by now. Great ending suite!

Limited double CD edition that comes with an additional bonus disc which is actually a moving tribute to classic bands such as Iron Maiden, Pink Floyd, Whitesnake, Dream Theater, Led Zeppelin, amongst many other groups.

This CD presents a series of rarities produced by this Jazz musical genius during different phases of his career, and recorded with a variety of line-ups. The album takes us on a sonic journey from his early clarinet-playing days, to his current and famous saxophone-player status.

Anthological in-concert recording of one of the very few times this suite was played in front of a live audience. It was created by this pestigious musician (clarinet and tenor sax), composer and Jazz arranger. Cherished historic document of Argentine Electric Jazz.

Camalotes is an Instrumental Fusion Power Trio which presents a solid Jazz structure, combined with welcomed elements of Argentine Folk in terms of its harmonic, melodic and rhythmic influences and musical directions. This album is a distinctive body of work, that beautifully flows in sensitive and qualitative ways.

Luis Alberto Spinetta's former keyboards player decided to launch his very first solo album in the shape of a 2-CD production. The first disc is more Experimental, consisting mainly of keyboards and synthesizers, somewhat similar in style to "Mono" Fontana's sonic produce. The second disc presents piano compositions, along the lines of Mingui Ingaramo's works. We could describe Claudio's recordings as eclectic, genre-less, parameter-less, without any standard at all; as if they were attached to the original soundtrack of an imaginary film.

Within the underworld of Contemporary Argentine Jazz, we come across the fourth work by this virtuoso guitarist, who is accompanied by an octet, plus a respectable number of renowned guests from the local scene. His music comes together very nicely amidst great expressiveness, which is clearly depicted in certain rhythmic turns and harmonic progressions, comparable to Lucio Balduini or Leo Fernandez.

Second disc conceived by this young Progressive Rock, Jazz Rock and Folk threesome, which brings about further investigations into the roots of our Argentine Rock. This time such research submerges the trio directly under the influence of Luis Alberto Spinetta, with elaborate songs that refer back directly to him, even including similarities with Luis Alberto's singing style.

Under the direction of Santiago Vasquez, this numerous Improvisation group gets its cues from an original sign system, through which they can experiment with different musical trends. The end product of such an interesting formula and concoction is somewhat close to R.I.O. and Avant Garde.

Comeflor is the name given to the brand new Heavy Rock Power Trio that Christian Van Lacke has created during his new stay in Argentina. Featuring the potency of Tlön in a state of utter Psychedelia and Progressive Rock, whilst following the same musical voyage initiated once upon a time and long ago by Color Humano and Pescado Rabioso.

La Compañía Oblicua was formed by its director, Marcelo Delgado, by summoning a group of thoroughly promising young and talented musicians who already had an ample career experience and trajectory in the realm of Contemporary Music. The group's complex repertoire relies very heavily on current Argentine and Latin American composers.

With the clear intention of playing a Progressive Rock style in a similar vein to that of Jethro Tull, the Argentine band attempted to fuse their own personal influences together with South American Folk rhythms. This very unique outcome of a combination drove the lads to release their very first long player in 1973. This re-release also includes the single which was launched a year later.

Former bass guitarist with Sui Generis, Alejandro decided to re-release this collection of tracks written and cut during the mid-seventies. His style has a very personal Folk Rock flavour and is not too dissimilar to the sounds of his former bandmates, and to the produce of equally legendary fellow-Argentines, Vivencia.

Legendary seventies threesome which was formed by former members of Piel de Pueblo, Nacho Smilari and Carlos Calabró. Together with Enrique Mallorens, the trio released their first record, "Tiempo despues", the style of which is predominantly Hard Rock and Psychedelia.

A year after their official stage debut, the threesome called it a day. Nevertheless, the trio's guitarist Nacho Smilari returned with a new line-up, besides an absolute about-face in terms of Cuero's sound. This second album offering is almost exclusively Instrumental, based on Jazz Rock and Afro Beat, with a certain similitude with legendary fellow-Argentine band Arco Iris.

Juan Cuiñas had formed part of the Hipo band during the early seventies. In 1981 he released his album "Estoy por aquí" on cassette format. This recording featured Folk and Rock compositions with a distinctive Argentine accent, a la Roque Narvaja and León Gieco. This re-release, which rescues this album from oblivion, also includes songs from his CD "Instante", which was recorded during early 2007.

Based on a double quintet instrumentation, the band deserves closer attention and audition than what merely meets the ear. Impressive mixture of Jazz, Funk, Rock, Electronic and Abstract Music, all neatly intertwined through cleverly directed improvisation. An experimental labour of magnificent and elevated proportions.

Highly prestigious Argentine Pianist and Composer, who during the mid-sixties began to experiment with Electronic Instrumentation within Argentine Folk and Traditional Spanish Music parameters. His ideas were totally ahead of their time, and we can trace creative parallels with the career of the great Vytas Brenner.

In this, their third CD, the foursome's Jazz improvisation stems from the group's connection with different rhythm bases, such as Rock, Trip Hop, Groove, etc. Once again, they successfully and freshly develop their own personal musical brand.

Within a certain academic framework, this musician displays part of Luis Alberto Spinetta's most inspired moments on his piano. Guillermo takes these memorable melodies and gives them a complete metamorphosis treatment, through varied musical esthetics which range between Erick Satie, Arnold Schoenberg, and even with a nod to Bill Evans!

In this his fourth album, Guillermo delights us with his piano renditions of classics by Los Shakers, Almendra, Miguel Mateos, Charly García, Luis Alberto Spinetta, Gustavo Ceratti, and Fito Páez. This record also features contributions from luminaries such as Liliana Herrero, Hugo Fattoruso and Fernando Cabrera.

This is Guillermo's fifth work and the first he has recorded in a live setting. This is the recording of a night during which Di Pietro offered a simply remarkable concert in the Assembly Hall of the National University of the City of Córdoba (and province of, Argentina.) Adding to his already much-recognized and lauded solo performances, this time the piano performs duets with the voice of Lucas Heredia and the guitar of Andrés Sosa.

The former guitarist with La Cofradía de la Flor Solar recorded his first solo album together with his fellow-La Pesada members. While doing so, he accomplished the conception of a mythical and iconic Psychedelic record, by combining Hard, Hard Blues and Folk, as he shared ideas with that musical community.

It took more than 40 years of waiting for this eminent guitarist to release a new solo album once again. Recording with a trio-formation, as well as the addition of many well-known local musicians, he managed to produce an album which links Rock, Fusion and Folk, in a style and sound that is thoroughly reminiscent and the property of the eighties, and not too far-off track from the solo works which the great Miguel Cantilo came up with during that decade.

This is a conceptual record based on numbers and their meaning in terms of random chance, observed from the point of view of inhabitants of the city of Buenos Aires. Endowed with high-caliber composition standards, this album traverses effortlessly through Avant-Tango, Contemporary Music and Urban Music in the way an imaginary film of intrigue, mystery and melancholy would do, as it wanders, roams and cruises through the downtown streets of the city of Buenos Aires.

For this occasion, Diego Schissi used different Arranging resources, in order to reinterpret the music of Mariano Mores, together with his Quintet and Guests, in a memorable tribute to the beloved Maestro, and which was recorded live at the Sala de Cámara de la Usina del Arte, in the city of Buenos Aires, on September 1st, 8th, and 15th, 2017.

Argentine edition of this double DVD, filmed during the final leg of their “A dramatic Tour of events” world tour in July 2011, captures Dream Theater igniting the Luna Park Arena in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Completed with a documentary, a trailer for the cinematic release.

This record is dedicated to all women. It comprises eleven songs which utilize different sets of instruments and timbres that were entirely composed by both artists together, while in the recording studio. They deliberately removed themselves from genres and gave their creations a Noise mixture type of focusing, as well as concentrating on the work of the shapes.

This is an Argentine Instrumental Fusion quartet which merges Folk and Tango, together with certain elements of Jazz. The band's musical esthetics are similar to those of group projects helmed by Lito Vitale. El Cuatriyo's debut album is presented here as a double CD, in digi-pack format. The bonus disc features the lads playing Argentine musical standards and classics, as well as video-clips of some of their key tracks.

We present El Cuatriyo's second album, which sees the band continuing along its familiar trend to developing Instrumental Music within the River Plate region's own recipe of Fusion. They also manage to add some amazing string arrangements, as well as horns, to some of the album's cuts, which definitely add extra grit to their sonic texting.

This is the third recorded delivery by the group that denominates its particular musical brand as Argentine "Yazz". They utilise resources which are proper to Jazz in their sonic approach, and Argentine rhythms (whether Folk or Urban) in their compositional labours. This mostly Instrumental album also includes at its end a whole section of Argentine Rock standards, as well as some vocal tracks.

This double album was recorded live in concert at the Ateneo Theatre in Buenos Aires, on May 30, 2003. It was the very first show of the series that introduced the legendarfy band's fans to their brand new album at the time, "Mercado de almas". They also performed classics from all the different phases of their vast and illustrious career. The group's original keyboardist, Luis Valenti, was part of the line-up during that memorable night.

The current lineup of El Reloj featuring Osvaldo Zavala and Eduardo Frezza, met up again to record this live-in-concert album, during 2017, at three downtown theaters in Buenos Aires, performing the repertoire that pertains to their first two, historical albums from the seventies.

Re-release of the second album by one of the very first German Dark bands. Just like the highly revered Lacrimosa, they blend melancholy, romanticism and darkness amidst beautiful piano playing, combined with female vocals. The end-product of this record is that of a sophisticated and different sound altogether.

Experimental Music compositions inspired in the present reality of the La Matanza district, a suburb located west of the city of Buenos Aires, which attempts to bring a critical and mystical vision of an area disregarded due to social oblivion, neglect and omission. The music featured here was written by Zelmar Garín for this eleven-piece ensemble, the musicians of which hail from the La Matanza region. The audiovisual DVD included in this package was put together by Mariano Raffo.

This Contemporary Chamber Music Ensemble, which is formed by eight amazing musicians, incorporates Jazz and Folk musical elements into their repertoire. This, their second album, was recorded live in concert at the Cafe Vinilo in Buenos Aires, on Friday June 1st, 2012. The set list consisted entirely of works by outside Contemporary composers.

This ensemble has established itself as a septet which works on an own repertoire basis consisting of free and directed songs, as well as improvisations. This, the outfit's third effort, wanders between songs of indigenous roots and Instrumental compositions featuring complex harmonies and delicate melodies.

What we have here is the very first project by this group, which compiles and promotes music written by composers enrolled within the vast stylistic frontiers of Argentine Jazz. The outfit works on a basic formation, and then rotates the keyboards player, as well as the singer. Musicians of the undeniable calibre and quality of Diego Schissi, Juan Raffo, and Nicolás Sorín, amongst others, participate in this extraordinary and authentically originally unique project.

Here we have the second coming from this ambitious Argentine musical project conglomerate. In this new offering they perform classified scores from the Contemporary Argentine Jazz scene, under the direction and arrangements of current local avavnt-garde musicians, who most definitely get to include their mark on each and every one of the album's tracks.

For this, their third album, the septet became an octet during a large chunk of the record, addressing the timeline of Argentine Jazz, right from the mythical Oscar Alemán, until all the way to the present, and by recreating compositions authored by various musicians, such as Walter & Javier Malosetti, Fat's Fernandez, and Ricardo Cavalli, amongst others, as well as Leo Genovese and Tomás Sainz.

Notable and renowned musicians from the Argentine Rock scene have come together in the shape of this Instrumental Fusion Power Trio, whose potency comes from their solid Rock base, sparks of Improvisational jamming and the soaring freedom of Jazz. Enigma, their 2nd album, has been assembled with compositions that are even stronger and more substantial than those which appeared on their very first CD outing.

These permanent referents of Contemporary Argentine Jazz, are forever open to new musical challenges that come their way. In this disc, the six-some transforms, through its own imprint, Classical compositions by Mozart and Ginastera, and with arrangements that enhance the diverse instrumentalists' qualities.

This album was recorded live in concert during the 2004 shows held at the Santa Maria theatre in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It features the band performing the cream of their extensive catalogue throughout their over 30-year career history.

Very first recorded outing by this foursome led by vibraphone player Ezequiel Finger, who is accompanied by Diego Pojomovsky on bass, Pablo Puntoriero on saxophone, and Gabriel Spiller on drums. The group's style can be labeled within the confinements of Fusion Jazz territory, with well-thought and executed arrangements, and where improvisation most definitely plays a very important part in the mix.

Classic album from the Argentine Jazz scene. This is Albero Favero's first album and was made in tribute to his hero, Jazz great John Coltrane. It consists of a five-movement suite composed for Jazz orchestra and soloists. Incudes bonus tracks.

In this third album by the very prestigious Hammond organ player Fernando Rusconi, he is accompanied by Pablo Fiorentini on guitars and Dino Martinez on drums. This work is stylistically-linked to Jazz Fusion, and also enjoys the contribution of other musicians who play some of these cuts in a truly Big Band fashion.

Cultivator of the Hammond organ in Argentina, Fernando unveils his fourth phonographic work in which he plays a very melodically accessible and groovy Instrumental Jazz & Funk. The other components of this trio are Timothy Cid on drums and guitarist Ryan Anderson.

This time around with a brand new trio formation together with Pablo Vernieri on electric guitar and Ezequiel "Chino" Piazza on drums, we once again encounter an inspired as always Rusconi with regard to his own compositions, as well as an interesting approach towards recording other songwriters' material.

In this their sixth recorded output, the threesome explores what lies in between conventional and risky sonic tapestries, in search of a Jazz / Funk / Blues and A Go Go Fusion, a characteristic which is very much akin to organ trios from the sixties.

The historical former keyboards player with Los Gatos and many other bands, recorded this excellent-sounding live-in-concert album during his European sojourn, on June 1st, 2002 at the Auditorio Municipal de Calasparra, Murcia, Spain. The band he assembled for the occasion featured his piano, two guitarists, stand-up bass-player, and drummer. They played Traditional American Blues songs, which were all sung in English.

This is a late seventies recording made by the members of Alma y Vida, which at that stage presented a couple of changes in their original line-up. By then, they were decidedly tilted towards a more Jazz Rock inclination, with variations in their wide-ranged rhythm base (from Funk & Soul, to Latin touches). Most of the tracks on this CD are Instrumental, with a few Spanish-sung exceptions. The good news is that, in spite of the name change, it is still that same old magic and roots of the great, mythical Alma y Vida.

Recorded together with very important Argentine and Spaniard musicians with whom he has worked with during his extensive artistic career, this double album brings together the entire recorded output from his Convocatoria I and II projects: a series of own Blues, Rock and Fusion compositions, as well as songs written by other people. Includes two bonus unreleased tracks.